Re: A misunderstanding of quotemeta ?

quotemeta

               Returns the value of EXPR with all non-"word" character
+s
               backslashed.  (That is, all characters not matching
               "/[A-Za-z_0-9]/" will be preceded by a backslash in the
               returned string, regardless of any locale settings.)  T
+his is
               the internal function implementing the "\Q" escape in d
+ouble-
               quoted strings.
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So the dot is backslashed.

Other question, why do you quotemeta the RHS of a s/// ?

Which problem are you trying to solve?

Cheers Rolf

(addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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Re^2: A misunderstanding of quotemeta ? by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jun 04, 2014 at 03:42 UTC
Other question, why do you quotemeta the RHS of a s/// ? Duh - there's no need to quotemeta the RHS. Which problem are you trying to solve? The problem of my own idiocy. (It's an ongoing exercise.) Thanks, guys. Cheers, Rob	[reply]